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steps and the reaction that followed, i'm joined by nathan brown, an expert on egyptian constitutional law and politics. he's a professor at george washington university. do you find it significant that this wasn't just tahrir square but alexandria, port said. >> oh, yes. essentially most of the non-islammist political forces in egypt-- that is the brotherhood and others aside-- have lined up against us. the real question is are they going to be able to form a united front? and do they have any strategy by which to overturn morsi's decisions. >> suarez: what exactly has he done through these decrees? what did he say-- what powers did he give to himself, basically, until there's a constitution? >> well, he did a lot of little things. he dismissed the old prosecutor, seen as a hold-over from the old rejewel. he promised new trials. but the main thing that he did was to take all of his actions, and place them outside of court review. and he also made impossible to disband the constitutional assembly that is now writing the document. he had already assumed not simply presidential powers but le
steps and the reaction that followed, i'm joined by nathan brown, an expert on egyptian constitutional law and politics. he's a professor at george washington university. do you find it significant that this wasn't just tahrir square but alexandria, port said. >> oh, yes. essentially most of the non-islammist political forces in egypt-- that is the brotherhood and others aside-- have lined up against us. the real question is are they going to be able to form a united front? and do they...
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. >> she is supposed to enforce the law. if she doesn't have enough money, she should go and ask congress for more. it's as simple as that. whenever we've had a need for a national security or public safety issue, congress has always followed the recommendations of the white house regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep america safe and to enforce our laws. >> brown: now let me ask you about the politics of this on your side. we heard in our settup piece mitt romney say that he wants a longer-term solution. when reporters asked him whether he would overturn this specifically, he didn't respond. you have governor rubbio who has talked about trying to do something sort of like this, not quite in the same way. are you looking for stronger statements from republican leaders? >> no, i'm happy with the statements republican leaders have made. i just remind everybody that seven years ago when i was chairman of the judiciary committee, i introduced a bill and the house passed it and the senate killed it th
. >> she is supposed to enforce the law. if she doesn't have enough money, she should go and ask congress for more. it's as simple as that. whenever we've had a need for a national security or public safety issue, congress has always followed the recommendations of the white house regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep america safe and to enforce our laws. >> brown: now let me ask you about the politics of this on your side. we heard in our settup piece...
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the ten-year-old law requires students to reach proficiency in math and reading scores by 2014. many educators believe that is impossible. the administration has said the waivers are a temporary measure while the education secretary works with congress to rewrite the law. 250,000 computers around the world are in danger of losing internet access on monday. it's all the result of malicious software dubbed the "internet doomsday" virus. back in november, it infected more than four million computers, directing users to false web sites to steal information. the fbi set up clean internet servers to take over from the malicious ones, but the clean servers are being shut down on monday. the fbi web site has information on how to check if individual computers are infected. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: banks and the way some have operated were back at the center of attention again this week. the focus this time is on the british bank barclays, and how it and others altered lending rates for profits. margaret warner has the story. >> warner: t
the ten-year-old law requires students to reach proficiency in math and reading scores by 2014. many educators believe that is impossible. the administration has said the waivers are a temporary measure while the education secretary works with congress to rewrite the law. 250,000 computers around the world are in danger of losing internet access on monday. it's all the result of malicious software dubbed the "internet doomsday" virus. back in november, it infected more than four...
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supreme court which we modeled our law after the indiana law. ultimately i don't believe there would have been any disenfranchised voters to the polls this november. it was a straw man argument used by the left to try and stop the i.d., to try to maintain status co- to ultimately protect the forces of corruption. we've seen acorn filing fictitious registrations in 20. we've had prosecutions in pennsylvania for election fraud. ultimately i believe that this law will stand. it's going to be the will of the people, the majority of pennsylvanians want to make sure that this policy is in place to protect every legally cast vote to ensure the forces of corruption do not have their way with undermining the will of the people. >> suarez: is it still unclear though where this is all going to end up? given the court setbacks in ohio, in various other states where they've tried to limit the days of early voting, raise the threshold for identification when you come to the polls, various rule changes in advance of this november 6? >> i think we're expecting
supreme court which we modeled our law after the indiana law. ultimately i don't believe there would have been any disenfranchised voters to the polls this november. it was a straw man argument used by the left to try and stop the i.d., to try to maintain status co- to ultimately protect the forces of corruption. we've seen acorn filing fictitious registrations in 20. we've had prosecutions in pennsylvania for election fraud. ultimately i believe that this law will stand. it's going to be the...
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for the president previously but she opposes abortion, and didn't like the way his health care reform law dealt with contraception. annabel foery, 64, voted republican in the last two election, but she said he isn't sure she trusts governor romney and wants to see more cooperation on both sides to get things done. adam salazar, a 26-year-old grad student is a republican who voted for president obama last time. he believes both parties have failed on immigration policy. and park and martha paschal is k apt to vote for president obama again in part because of what she sees as his failure to stand up to wall street. you all remained undecided this time last week. did you hear anything from president obama last night that help you make up your mind? >> i didn't feel as though there was much substance that was given in his speech. i thought there was a lot of emotion and, you know, rallying the base. but not much in the way of policy that was fleshed out. >> i was disappointed that he didn't have more plans for the next four years, specific legislation, or other proposals. >> i was happy to se
for the president previously but she opposes abortion, and didn't like the way his health care reform law dealt with contraception. annabel foery, 64, voted republican in the last two election, but she said he isn't sure she trusts governor romney and wants to see more cooperation on both sides to get things done. adam salazar, a 26-year-old grad student is a republican who voted for president obama last time. he believes both parties have failed on immigration policy. and park and martha...
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that's why we have different laws that govern corporations than govern individual citizens. and so to say that corporations are people, again, flies in the face of all the traditional supreme court decisions that we have made that have been made in the past. >> woodruff: senator john mccain we thank you for talking with us. >> it's nice to be with you again. macau. >> woodruff: there's more from our interview with senator mccain online. he accuses the obama administration of antagonizing pakistan by encouraging india to form a closer relationship with afghanistan. and here on the broadcast, we will talk with a senate democrat in the coming days. >> brown: it's the sort of thing that might literally make your skin crawl, but it's very much a fact of life: each of us harbors trillions of bacteria and other micro-organisms on and in our bodies. another fact: very little has been known about these microbes what they are, where they are, how they differ on an individual person and from person to person. but now scientists, more than 200 of them involved in a five year project cal
that's why we have different laws that govern corporations than govern individual citizens. and so to say that corporations are people, again, flies in the face of all the traditional supreme court decisions that we have made that have been made in the past. >> woodruff: senator john mccain we thank you for talking with us. >> it's nice to be with you again. macau. >> woodruff: there's more from our interview with senator mccain online. he accuses the obama administration of...
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troops on iraqi soil without legal protection so ensure that they wouldn't be subject to iraqi laws, iraqi courts and so forth. that was the recommendation of the chairman of the joint chiefs. it was clearly the right thing to do at that point. but this was a political decision by prime minister maliki, not some technical issue in the negotiations. >> woodruff: let me ask you about another part of the world, peter feaver. that is china. we heard governor romney say... he cited again and again the need for the united states to take the lead around the world. he said the u.s. should use its great influence to shape events. then he talked about china's recent assertiveness in the pacific region. what would he have the united states do right now to shape events with china? >> well, there has been some bipartisanship on east asia. so the obama administration after flirting with a different policy in 2009 returned to an emphasis on asia that had been there in the previous administration. there was an emphasis that involved strengthening our alliances with japan and india and presenting to
troops on iraqi soil without legal protection so ensure that they wouldn't be subject to iraqi laws, iraqi courts and so forth. that was the recommendation of the chairman of the joint chiefs. it was clearly the right thing to do at that point. but this was a political decision by prime minister maliki, not some technical issue in the negotiations. >> woodruff: let me ask you about another part of the world, peter feaver. that is china. we heard governor romney say... he cited again and...
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he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum under norwegian law. we have a report from emma murphy of independent television news. >> it's responsible for europe's worst peacetime atrocity and yet he swag erred and smirked his way into court. it was of course his trademark clenched fist is a loot. and then he turned to face the families of the dead and the victims who had survived his attack. the smile as he turned back chilling even to those who had not suffered at his hands. and then that smile again as judges ruled he was sane when he committed his crimes. it was just the result he wanted. as he refused to acknowledge the court because it stood for multiculturism he apologized to a translator for not killing more. >> in my view this sentence and judgement is il legitimate. at the same time i cannot appeal against the judgement because by appealing i would legitimize the court. i would like to end with an expression of regret and apologize to all militant nationalists in norway and in europe. >> the judgement saw him sentenced to 21 years in pris
he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, the maximum under norwegian law. we have a report from emma murphy of independent television news. >> it's responsible for europe's worst peacetime atrocity and yet he swag erred and smirked his way into court. it was of course his trademark clenched fist is a loot. and then he turned to face the families of the dead and the victims who had survived his attack. the smile as he turned back chilling even to those who had not suffered at his hands. and...
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still, under vatican law, the trial must proceed. a formal verdict is expected on saturday. >> brown: for more on all of this we turn to naomi o'leary who is covers the vatican for reuters in rome. hat kind of documens was the pope's butler taking? what do we know? >> reporter: well, from what we learned from his testimony and from the testimony of the police, these were documents that were of aÑi sensitive natue taken from the pope's apartment. some of them had been written on by the pope himself with words like "to be destroyed," for example. now, these documents, the butler admits he leaked to an italian journalist, and they appeared in a book earlier this year which caused a bit of discomfort for the vatican because inside those documents there were allegations of improper business dealings and of rivalries between cardinals. >> brown: tell us a little bit more about that. the butler says he did it. but he also says he did it to expose corruption. what kind of corruption? what are we talking about? >> reporter: the documents tha
still, under vatican law, the trial must proceed. a formal verdict is expected on saturday. >> brown: for more on all of this we turn to naomi o'leary who is covers the vatican for reuters in rome. hat kind of documens was the pope's butler taking? what do we know? >> reporter: well, from what we learned from his testimony and from the testimony of the police, these were documents that were of aÑi sensitive natue taken from the pope's apartment. some of them had been written on by...
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hundreds and millions of dollars and to have a union have so much power that they use the force of law to demand and require school districts to bye health insurance from a monopoly provider of health insurance, that's the teacher union run health insurance plan is one measure of how out of control their power was in wisconsin. so i applaud governor walker's efforts. i know governor romney has as well generally. those are the kinds of out-of-control spending systems that have to be brought under control. president obama won't do it, mitt romney will. >> woodruff: former governor romney tim pawlenty, thank you very much for talking with us. >> you're welcome, judy, thank you for having me on the show. >> woodruff: online you can watch my earlier interview with former president clinton. also on our site, we keep up with the campaigns with gwen's take and in my weekly political blog. to help us give my blog a name, send your suggestions to me, my twitter handle is @judywoodruff. >> brown: now, cyber-war, drone strikes and very public revelations. >> over the past few months there's been a
hundreds and millions of dollars and to have a union have so much power that they use the force of law to demand and require school districts to bye health insurance from a monopoly provider of health insurance, that's the teacher union run health insurance plan is one measure of how out of control their power was in wisconsin. so i applaud governor walker's efforts. i know governor romney has as well generally. those are the kinds of out-of-control spending systems that have to be brought...
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this law is here to stay. the supreme court has spoken we are moving forward that is what is at stake in this election. >> holman: today's stop was part of the obama campaign's focus this week on trying to re-energize support among young voters. two new reports on the u.s. economy offered small signs of hope. the commerce department said growth in the second quarter was slightly better than initially thought. and, the federal reserve reported moderate expansion, in much of the country, during july and early august. but the news barely moved wall street today. the dow jones industrial average gained just four points to close at 13,107. the nasdaq also rose four points to close at 3,081. there's been another so-called insider attack in afghanistan. a man in an afghan army uniform shot and killed three nato troops today. 34 such attacks have occurred this year, including at least a dozen in the past month. in all, 45 coalition members have been killed, most of them americans. the president of syria has been heard
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. >> and joining us is laurie levinson, professor of law at loyola law school. help us understand the issue before the judge. loughner's lawyers had to convince the judge that he was competent enough to enter a plea. what does that mean? >> it means he understood the charges against him and able to cooperate and be involved with his lawyer and the proceedings. so that he knew that when he pled guilty, that really meant that he would spend the rest of his life in prison. >> and you followed this case. this was a man before the same judge and was in very clearly in different circumstances in past appearances. >> oh, absolutely. this judge has seen jared lee loughner in all sorts of conditions. he is the judge who ordered the medication to be given and the defense did not want that. they were happy to have jared loughner be in the prison hospital indefinitely. but the judge forced the medication and made him competent and meant we could have a resolution to the case. >> so still to try to follow this here, when we use that word "competent" we mean competent now dif
. >> and joining us is laurie levinson, professor of law at loyola law school. help us understand the issue before the judge. loughner's lawyers had to convince the judge that he was competent enough to enter a plea. what does that mean? >> it means he understood the charges against him and able to cooperate and be involved with his lawyer and the proceedings. so that he knew that when he pled guilty, that really meant that he would spend the rest of his life in prison. >> and...
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>> well, under the law you have to have a nomination process to choose a candidate and the current law requires us to have some type of convention. but it doesn't require us to have a four-day convention and the massive amounts of money that get spent putting these on, today with all the technology that's available i think there's a way to shorten the process and still meet the goals. >> woodruff: do you think there may be a time that it's one day? >> never know. >> woodruff: you were also quoted, mr. speaker, saying the platform should be on one sheet of paper >> i've always believed this. back in the mid-'90s i was on a crusade to get the platform on one sheet of paper. you put it on one sheet of paper it requires you to make decisions, make it clear what the party stands for rather than long documents nobody reads. >> woodruff: do you mean that? nobody reads them >> sure have you ever read them? >> woodruff: sure, i read them every time. (laughs) >> i'm not sure anybody's ever read one, i've never read one. maybe the chairman of the platform committee has. >> woodruff: mitt romney b
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law in pennsylvania has taken a new turn. the state supreme court today ordered a lower court judge to review his decision that upheld the law. if he finds that voters cannot easily obtain a photo i.d. and will be disenfranchised, he must strike down the statute. otherwise, it stands. similar legal battles are under way in several other states. a federal judge in arizona has cleared the way to enforce a centerpiece of the state's new immigration law. effective immediately, police who stop people for other reasons will have to ask about their immigration status, if it seems in doubt. the u.s. supreme court upheld the provision last june, but opponents made a final bid to delay it. nato leaders today defended scaling back joint operations with afghan forces as "prudent and temporary." the decision followed attacks by afghan soldiers and police on coalition troops. nato secretary-general anders fogh rasmussen said the announcement proves the afghans are "already capable of operating on their own." and white house spokesman jay c
law in pennsylvania has taken a new turn. the state supreme court today ordered a lower court judge to review his decision that upheld the law. if he finds that voters cannot easily obtain a photo i.d. and will be disenfranchised, he must strike down the statute. otherwise, it stands. similar legal battles are under way in several other states. a federal judge in arizona has cleared the way to enforce a centerpiece of the state's new immigration law. effective immediately, police who stop...
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that's point of fact in law. now, to his defense, he's saying that's part of the affordable health care act and i'm going to use that and seniors will be better off. that's his argument, i don't agree with that. but look what the what they say about paul ryan, he cuts the same amount from medicare, but he wants to use it for premium support. so basically you have a fundamental difference of an idea, one is the president would like to spend it on a government-centered program and ryan would like to use it on a private-sector program to promote competition to drive down cost. that's what we should be talking about is those two fundamental differences in ideas. instead we're hurling invectives at each other. take this one ad that the... it wasn't... to be fair it wasn't an obama ad but somehow romney was responsible for a woman getting cancer and dying? >> ifill: a democratic super pac from last week. >> that's absurd, i don't think people will believe that. >> ifill: the republican national committee chairman was s
that's point of fact in law. now, to his defense, he's saying that's part of the affordable health care act and i'm going to use that and seniors will be better off. that's his argument, i don't agree with that. but look what the what they say about paul ryan, he cuts the same amount from medicare, but he wants to use it for premium support. so basically you have a fundamental difference of an idea, one is the president would like to spend it on a government-centered program and ryan would like...
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but she's facing criticism from republicans for her support of president obama's health care reform law. >> when times are tough, you decide where you've got to cut. but i am telling you, we don't do it on the backs of our seniors. this is not an entitlement program, like a lot of people in washington call it. it's not an entitlement. it's something you have all paid into since your high school job, just like i did. >> reporter: she's in a dead- heat race with republican chris collins, a former erie county executive and businessman. collins says he supports changes to medicare, but stops well short of endorsing the ryan budget. >> i never said i support the ryan plan. the ryan plan is in the past. it's a romney budget. and that's what i'm looking forward to being a part of the debate in. >> reporter: for hochul, the ryan budget is a political opportunity. >> the ryan budget last year, when they were trying to privatize social security and turn it into a voucher program, it allowed me to show the crystal clear differences between myself and my opponent, a year and a half ago. and the per
but she's facing criticism from republicans for her support of president obama's health care reform law. >> when times are tough, you decide where you've got to cut. but i am telling you, we don't do it on the backs of our seniors. this is not an entitlement program, like a lot of people in washington call it. it's not an entitlement. it's something you have all paid into since your high school job, just like i did. >> reporter: she's in a dead- heat race with republican chris...
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he's a professor at the university of michigan school of law. and dennis kelleher is the president of better markets, a non-profit organization pushing for tougher financial regulation and transparency. >> the u.s. government took big holdings in a lot of companies in that brief era but aig was arguably the poster child, how does the idea look in retrospect now that it's unwinding and selling back the stock? >> i think the government took the right steps that were necessary to stabilize the financial system. not just the investment in aig and the trouble add set relief program but also the effort at the federal reserve to intervene to stabilize the economy, the federal deposit insurance corporation stepped in with guarantees in the banking system, the treasury department stepped if with guarantees in the money market mutual fund system. none of these were pretty things. all of them were politically unpopular. but i think that when you look at it if he end of the day we had a situation in which the economy was falling off a cliff and the governme
he's a professor at the university of michigan school of law. and dennis kelleher is the president of better markets, a non-profit organization pushing for tougher financial regulation and transparency. >> the u.s. government took big holdings in a lot of companies in that brief era but aig was arguably the poster child, how does the idea look in retrospect now that it's unwinding and selling back the stock? >> i think the government took the right steps that were necessary to...